I read your article which said the National Health Service was in a cash crisis (November 7).

The figures you quoted amount to less than £7 a week, per person, for full medical cover for doctors and hospital treatment, including brain operations, the removal of boils on the backside, heart transplants and plastic surgery.

It also pays for the wages for overworked doctors and nurses, cleaning and cooking staff, as well as limb amputations, ambulances, beds, sheets baths, food, drinks, laxatives and toilet paper It doesn't take a genius a to see what the problem is: You can't get a gallon from a pint pot.

The answer is so easy. You only need a political party with the moral backbone to tell the electorate the amount of cash needed to run the Health Service.

And for the electorate to vote with compassion not greed. Politicians would then begin to gain respect.

And the taxpayer could sleep in peace, knowing sick children and the elderly would be sure of immediate attention for their ills.

Just a measly £2 more per person, per week, in our hospital trust area would give it an extra £104 million to spend a year.

It would only require a bit of backbone. After all, a pint of beer costs £2, video hire £3 and £1 for an ice cream on Brighton seafront.

-Derek Hobbs-Ainley, Hove